Don’t ask me to flirt with you

Why do we act like writing is dating?

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“It’s not you, it’s me”
(Any rom-com feat. a publication that rejected your story)

I sometimes think we’re treating publications as a crush. And we’re really millennial about it, you know? There’s a ton of social stalking. You read what they like, search for who they dated before. Then drown in vanilla ice-cream, in the…